Hams To The Rescue In Northwest Flooding > BPL is not goin to help people who save lifes

reply to kc8jwt

Re: BPL is not goin to help people who save lifes

But when the company that came up with the only solution doesn't see the need to get into BPL, what good does it do? When you are making a boatload on radios and cable modems and there are only a few BPL projects on the drawing board, why would you sink a fortune into something that has drawn fire? I am a ham and I don't oppose BPL. You don't realize that there are ALOT of hams that don't support most of what the ARRL does, and I don't "oppose" BPL.

You must not have read the part about sending a modulated RF signal over a unshielded wire for miles. That is what I oppose about BPL is the shoddy science and engineering that is behind it. As a result, you're just asking for interference issues all up and down the HF band, not just ham bands. What's not to say a FEMA trailer sets up with government HF radios near a BPL operations and it affects them too? Your argument that BPL ONLY affects hams is not valid. I am also a member of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary. We use HF too. So if I am trying to help a mariner on an HF frequency and I am getting interfered from a near by BPL install, and that person dies because I could not copy his/her position because of interference, who's to blame? Me? The mariner? The BPL operator? According to your statements, it would be the mariner for get stranded in the first place and using outdated modes of communication.